<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)">On this #InternationalPoetryDay, we dig up our podcast <b><span class="gmail-il">Wolman</span>, Lettrism, Sound Poetry and Beyond</b>:</span></font><br>
<br>Link: <a href="http://bit.ly/c7vtYC" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/c7vtYC</a><br><br>MP3 file: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/wolman/wolmannew.mp3" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/<wbr>uploads/<span class="gmail-il">wolman</span>/wolmannew.mp3</a><br>
<br>Related info: <a href="http://bit.ly/bpY2Ej" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/bpY2Ej</a><br><br>Although
Gil J <span class="gmail-il">Wolman</span>'s seminal sound work has been largely overlooked, it was a
precursor of sound poetry and is one of the key elements of Lettrist
poetry. This radio show reconstructs the link between Lettrism, sound
poetry, and the work of some isolated but fundamental figures.<br>
<br>Summary:<br>In 1950, after meeting <b>Isidore Isou </b>and joining the
Lettrist movement, <b>Gil J <span class="gmail-il">Wolman</span></b> invented the notion of mégapneumie,
poems of breath and pure sound. Although his seminal sound work has been
largely overlooked, it was a precursor of sound poetry and is one of
the key elements of Lettrist poetry. This radio show reconstructs the
link between Lettrism, sound poetry, and the work of some isolated but
fundamental figures, so as to recover a piece of sound art history.
Lettrism launched its first manifesto<b> in Paris in 1946, </b>through the
voice of its creator and main theorist Isidore Isou. It proposed and
systematised a fusion between poetry and music and incorporated body
sounds written down with the help of a new alphabet, and also introduced
innovations in the visual arts field with hypergraphy. Isou (1925-2007)
and his first partner in creation, <b>Gabriel Pomerand (</b>1926-1972), were
joined by <b>François Dufrêne </b>(1930-1982), <b>Jean-Louis Brau</b> (1930-1985), Gil
J <span class="gmail-il">Wolman</span> (1929-1995) and Maurice Lemaître (1926), and later by <b>Jacques
Spacagna</b> (1936-1990), <b>Roberto Altmann </b>(1942) <b>Roland Sabatier </b>(1942) and
<b>Broutin </b>(1948), amongst others. In 1950, Gil J <span class="gmail-il">Wolman</span> invented
mégapneumie, or breath poetry, and just two years later, in 1953,
François Dufrêne bought a tape recorder and used it to compose his
crirythmes, which were performed publicly for the first time in October
1955. This experiment cleared the way for more intensive use of this
expressive tool, and in 1959, sound poetry was born with the diverse
voices of<b> Henri Chopin</b> (1922-2008) and Bernard Heidsieck (1928), and
even <b>Brion Gysin </b>(1916-1986). This show also includes the voices of some
solitary figures such as <b>Ghérasim Luca</b> (1913-1994), who marked the end
of surrealism and contributed to the emergence of a
repetetive-interpretative poetry; Altagor (1915-1982) and his
metapoetry<b>; Otto Muehl </b>(1925), who could be one of the bastard children
of mégapneumes (at least in his sound work dating from 1968), and the
voice and words of <b>Pierre Guyotat</b> (1940), which can be heard in one of <b>
Frédéric Acquaviva'</b>s musical compositions.</span></span></font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br><br><br><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)"><b>Enjoy!</b></span></span><br></div></div>